title: [Intrapartum fetal monitoring by electrocardiography].
abstract: To study the diagnostic values of intrapartum fetal electrocardiography (FECG) and cardiotocography (CTG), 68 patients in labor were monitored at random. One-min Apgar score was chosen as the gold standard. The specificity (87.1%) and accuracy (86.8%) of FECG were found better than those of CTG (54.5% and 57.4% respectively). Fetal hypoxia and acidosis was firstly manifested by shortened P-R interval, FHR deceleration and increase in the T wave amplitude. It suggested that FECG can be a reliable diagnostic method following CTG screening.
authors.affiliation: Second Hospital, West China University of Medical Sciences, Chengdu.
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Xiong
mesh_terms: D015148:Cardiotocography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D005316:Fetal Distress / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D005318:Fetal Heart / Q000503:physiopathology; D005323:Fetal Monitoring; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy